Summary: Through a trance Oogruk tells Russel everything needs to know about how to be an Eskimo. But now he takes the dogs out for a run and get use to them to learns to be a part of them then comes back and in the next little while Oogruk asks him to him to hunt some Ptarmigan. When he comes out and aims at the center of the center of the bird he gets it. Then is about to go home but as he is going he gets close to a large deer so he sneaks out to it and gets it in the heart. Oogruk is happy and they feast on the deer then in a while Oogruk wants some seal blubber and meat so Russel goes out and does get anything because of a huge storm that he hides under a rock for then the dogs drag him in what he thinks is the wrong direction. But after several hours he starts to freeze and realizes he is going in the wrong direction so he lets the dogs go and they find the right over a thirty foot straight of water that he eventually once thins to twenty feet across. He throws the lead dog and he and the follow across a small iceberg and leave the ice island and go back home on the solid ground.

Main Character: Russel: This character develops in this chapter by becoming one with the dogs and putting his learning into hands on experience, and especially solving problems.

Setting: An Eskimo village in Alaska.

Quote: “Sometimes dogs are smarter then humans.” This shows that in a sense dogs are smarter that humans because lots of time humans let their emotions run them, and in Russel’s case he thought he knew which way the village was but was wrong and the dogs all along which way the village actually was.

Vocab Definitions:
Ptarmigan: Bird of the grouse family inhabiting arctic, sub arctic, and alpine regions of the Northern Hemisphere and having feathered legs and feet and plumage that is brown or gray in summer and white in winter.

Scrabbling: To scratch or scrape with claws or hands.